Door-holder.



.I. MCCORMICK.

DOOR HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 7, I917.

1 ,'236,7 28; Patented Aug. 14,1917.

1771 6 "for yd 5? JOHN MCCORMICK, OF NORTHVILLE, SOUTH DAKOTA.

DOOR-I-IGLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 14, 1917.

Application filed February 7, 1917. Serial No. 147,240.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN MCCORMICK, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Northville, in the county of Spink and State of South Dakota, have invented a certain new and useful Door-Holder, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a door holder of simple, durable and inexpensive construction.

More particularly it is my object to provide a device adapted to be secured to a screen door or other closure member having a coacting part adapted to be secured to the frame of a building or the like, the parts being so arranged that when the device is not in use, its parts move to position where they are out of the way, and being so ar ranged that they automatically assume the .last mentioned position when manually moved away from their operative coacting positions.

My invention consists in the construction, arrangement and combination of the various parts of the device, whereby the objects contemplated are attained as hereinafter more fully set forth, pointed out in my claims and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 shows a side elevation of a portion of a screen door frame equipped with a holder embodying my invention.

Fig. 2 shows front elevation of the same.

Fig. 3 shows a horizontal, sectional view taken on the line 33 of Fig. 2, and

Fig. 1 shows a horizontal, sectional view taken on the line of Fig. 2.

In the drawings herewith, whereby my invention is illustrated, I have used the reference numeral 10 to indicate a portion of a door jainb or frame. The numeral 11 is used to indicate the free or swinging edge of a screen door or the like.

Secured to the frame of the door 11 is a vertical supporting member 12 held in position by means of screws 18 or the like, and having at its lower end the laterally extending flange 14c, and at its upper end the parallel flange 15.

A portion of the plate 12 and the flanges 1 1 and 15 are cut away forming a vertical bearing for an upright rod or shaft 16, having at its upper end a rightangled horizon-. tal extension 17, and at the other end of which is formed a hook 1S.

Secured to the door jamb 10 is a screweye or the like 19 adapted to coact with the hook 18 when the door is closed.

At the lower end of the rod 16 is a rightangled horizontal extension 20, preferably having at its free end a hook member 21. The extension is so arranged that when the extension 17 is in its operative position, shown in Fig. 1, with the hook 18 received in the screw-eye 19, the extension 20 is in chned toward the jamb 10 at a more acute angle to the door 11 than is the extension 17.

The plate 12 has at its end, opposite the free edge of the door, an extension 22 formed on the. end of which is a vertical, outwardly extending flange 23, at the lower corner of which is formed a hook member- 24.

A contractible coil spring 25 is secured to the respective hook members 21 and 2d and normally tends to hold the member 17 in position adjacent to the door 11.

Formed in the outer edge of the flange 23, near the upper edge thereof, is a notch 24: adapted to receive the extension 17 when said extension is moved to its position adjacent to the door 11, as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 2.

In the practical operation and use of my improved door holder, when the door is moved to closed position, and when the device is not in use, the extension 17 stands in the position shown by dotted lines in Fig. 2. When the door is closed, and it is desired to secure it in closed position, the extension 17, which is of somewhat resilient material, is swung around and slightly raised until the hook 18 is above the height of the screweye 19. The hook 18 is then lowered until it is received in the eye.

It will be seen that the spring will have been moved to position of considerable ten sion by the operation just described.

W' hen it is desired to release the door, the extension 17 is raised, whereupon the tension of the spring 25 will swing the extension 17 around to posit-ion adjacent to the door 11 and is received in the notch 24. The notch 24; holds the extension 17 against sagging, and also assists in preventing the ex tension from accidentally being bent downwardly by persons using the door.

My improved device is very simple of construction, and can be made at a comparativel T small expense.

One of its important advantages lies in its construction, whereby whenever it is in use, it is automatically moved to and held in position where there are no parts projecting any considerable distance from the door.

On account of the construction, hereinbefore set forth, there is no danger of the extension 17 being struck by the jamb and bent when the door is swung to closed position.

It is my intention to cover by this application any use of equivalents or modified forms of structure, which may be included within the reasonable scope of my claims.

I claim as my invention.

1. In a device of the class described, a supporting member, an upright rod rotatably mounted therein having at one end a horizontal extension, an engaging member adapted to be secured to a frame adjacent to a door on Which my device is mounted, means on said extension adapted to coact with said engaging member, a second rightangled extension on said rod, and yielding means arranged to coact with said second extension for normally moving the first extension to position adjacent to -a door on Which the device is mounted.

2. In a device of the class described, a supporting member, an upright rod rotatably mounted therein having at one end a horizontal extension, an engaging member adapted to be secured to frame adjacent to a door on which my device is mounted, means on said extension adapted to coact with said engaging member, a second rightangled extension on said rod, 21 laterally extending engaging flange on said supporting member, and a spring connecting said flange and said second extension for yieldingly tending to move said first extension to position adjacent to a door on which the device is mounted.

3. In a device of the class described, a supporting member, an upright rod rotatably mounted therein having at one end a horizontal extension, an engaging member adapted to be secured to a frame adjacent to a door on which my device is mounted, means on said extension adapted to coact with said engaging member, a second rightangled extension on said rod, an outwardly extending flange on said supporting memher, a spring operatively connected with said flange and with said second extension for yieldingly tending to move said first extension to position adjacent to said door, said flange having a notch for receiving said first extension.

Des Moines, Iowa, June 13, 1916.

JOHN MCCORMICK.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G. 

